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Paro

Paro

Dreams Of Passion

Namita Gokhale
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First published in 1984, to both notoriety
and critical acclaim, Paro remains a social
comedy without parallel in contemporary
Indian writing.
Paro, heroic temptress, glides like an exotic
bird of prey through the world of privilege
and Scotch that the rich of Bombay
and Delhi inhabit. She is observed closely
by the acid Priya, voyeur and obsessive
diarist, who lost her heart to the sewingmachine
magnate BR, and then BR
to Paro. But he is merely one among
a string of admirers. Paro has seduced
many: Lenin, the Marxist son of a cabinet
minister; the fat and sinister Shambhu
Nath Mishra, Congress Party éminence
grise; Bucky Bhandpur, test cricketer
and scion of a princely family; Loukas
Leoras, a homosexual Greek film director;
and, very nearly, Suresh, the lawyer on
the make whom Priya has married . . .

Imprint: India Penguin Modern Classics

Published: May/2024

ISBN: 9780143416968

Length : 164 Pages

MRP : ₹299.00

Paro

Dreams Of Passion

Namita Gokhale

First published in 1984, to both notoriety
and critical acclaim, Paro remains a social
comedy without parallel in contemporary
Indian writing.
Paro, heroic temptress, glides like an exotic
bird of prey through the world of privilege
and Scotch that the rich of Bombay
and Delhi inhabit. She is observed closely
by the acid Priya, voyeur and obsessive
diarist, who lost her heart to the sewingmachine
magnate BR, and then BR
to Paro. But he is merely one among
a string of admirers. Paro has seduced
many: Lenin, the Marxist son of a cabinet
minister; the fat and sinister Shambhu
Nath Mishra, Congress Party éminence
grise; Bucky Bhandpur, test cricketer
and scion of a princely family; Loukas
Leoras, a homosexual Greek film director;
and, very nearly, Suresh, the lawyer on
the make whom Priya has married . . .

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Paperback / Hardback
Ebooks
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